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Climate Change Promotes People Problems

December 14, 2013

In a BBC news article, because of weather causing homes to be destroyed, farmlands to be flooded, and low lying cities to be inundated, the BBC explains that is why poor people remain poor. The more developed nations are doing what they can, but more is needed. Children in low income neighborhood are prone to depression; and a quarter of the World’s children are struggling to learn because of malnutrition. With no hope of something better for your children, sometimes life seems too hard. What would you do for your children? These too, are people problems.

At present,  those without are barely keeping up with clean water; food is hard to come by, so the housing - homes put together with tin and discarded scraps - is simply not possibly able to be improved and  ‘reinforced’ against ANY possible weather conditions.

There will be 325 million of those people, highly exposed to the elements by 2030 in 49 countries. Sub-Saharan Africa will be home to 118 million, over a third of that ‘people number’. Expert researchers for the Overseas Development Institute have ”often heard that ill health is what keeps people poor”. If we are going to feed and care for the third world, we must consider better ways to house them - or take Climate Change into account - which would help US also. It would do ”a world full of good”.

And Some Are Thinking Ahead

The Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, the journal, ‘Science”, and the University of California at Berkeley have completed and compared several dozen studies of relationships between climate (not weather) and conflict. These compilations are from most regions of the world, and from points in the past 10,000 years. 100’s of papers were weeded out.

They find a correlation as to what they call, being ”hot and bothered”,  differing from ‘cool and composed’. In other, more obvious words, “higher temperatures and a disagreeable attitude are connected”. Some disagree, however. They say that the underlying mechanisms remain unclear”, that is, no ”A causes B”.

More Reptiles?

Another, interesting point is that, due to Climate Change, warming makes reptiles bigger, and mammals smaller. This change has been recorded in the Florida Museum of Natural History, and in the journal ”Science Writers 2013”.

Now, most would consider reptiles more distant from ourselves than other mammals, and that when hearing the word ‘reptile’ thinks of dinosaurs, crawling creatures and lizards, mostly animals to avoid. This ‘swerving of nature’ toward animals we avoid may be deemed towards more - violence - and it may not. It is just included here for the reader.

”Murders Could Follow Math Law”

In South America, in one country, the murder rate is exceedingly high. Postulates say that it is due to poverty, population concentrations, and ”loss of face”, requiring revenge. Again, however, statistics show those are in the same pot, but ”there is no cause and effect”, no ”A causes B”. Some ask “Can Big Data Help Predict Future Crime”? Ever hear of a movie about “Pre-crime”, starring Tom Cruise? My question: Is this “comparable information” with Climate Change? Are they, too, ”hot and bothered”? Is this information being discouraged?

”Air Pollution Kill Millions Each Year”

In cities, even avoiding crime, where high ‘particulate matter’, fine dust material suspended in the air (pollution), premature mortality exceeds others by 15 - 20%. WHO, the “World Health Organization” says Beijing, Karachi, New Delhi, Kahmandu, Lima, Shanghai, Arequipa, Mexico City, Cairo are such cities. That’s over 86.7 million total population, of which over 17 million deaths are preventable! Because there are multiple cities in different countries,  WHO says it’s beyond individual control and that a national or international body is needed.

How much is the value of 17 million lives? There could be another Einstein! Another Mandela!!

Air Is Everywhere - No One Country Owns It, But One Could Ruin It -

The BBC reports ”Air Pollution Still  Is Harming Health”.

NBC news reported in July 2013 that ‘air pollution causes Lung Cancer and worsens Heart Failure’, virtually the same words. There is  the indicator that ”more pollution equals more disease”.

The Danish Cancer Society Research Center says ”there is no safe level” or, ‘if you live in a polluted city, you will get these diseases’.

In Japan, the Okayama University Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences reported in the Lancet Medical Journal that, after compiling and correlating 17 different studies of over 300, 000 people in 9 European countries over 13 years, that a (as tiny as) “a ten micro-gram per cubic meter increase in Co2 will cause a 2% increase in the likelihood of Heart failure” … !

In another grouping of 47 studies of the greenhouse gases in the air of the US and Europe, that with an increase of 1 ppm (part per million) of Co2 (gasoline exhaust), you will have a 3.5% increased risk for Heart failure… One wonders if that is over a lifetime, or annually, or … shorter?

Overall …

These are not inconsequential studies, and neither are they area specific. The indication is that, according to accumulated knowledge, past recorded events and computer modeling, that “what we make is killing us”. Have you ever heard about lemmings? How about just going out and jumping over a cliff? We are smarter than that, aren’t we? If one saw a rake with prongs up, would -you- turn it over? How about a field full of ‘prong exposed’ rakes?

Again, it is beyond individual control, but together, we are stronger than by ourselves.

Sources: ”http//www.BBC.co.uk/news/science-environment-24538078, N.P.R. 12/14/13, or ”http://nbcnews.to/15HIUvH”, ”http://www.BBC.co.UK/news/science-environment-23315781”, ”China Coal Policy Cuts Lifespan”, ”Why Delhi Again Has Become Submerged By Smog”, ”http://nbcnews.to/18q08i4”, ”http://wwwqw.BBC.co.UK/news/science-environment-23630749”, ”http://www.BBC.co.UK/news/science-environment-24493530”, ”http://nbcnews.to/13KrUEa”, ”Technology May Help Predict Crime” - 10/28/12, N.P.R.

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Spock, you just don’t get it. It takes patience, too.

Where does it all go?

    I know where it goes, I spent it. But it’s not my fault that I don’t have savings. I know I’ve tried to in the past, I can only hope that I will be able to in the future. The future isn’t as bright as my past future’s hopes were. Pressure comes from somewhere. I have only myself to consider, myself to cook and clean for, myself to console at night, to tell myself that the days ahead are going to be better, and myself to worry over. And not to lose faith in others, I must think of them as well. With no one to help me along, I must act as friend to myself, the one who watches over my small income, and my health, all of which to this point are going well. So buck up, me, I’m doing okay.

David Schaedler

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Be Clear

    The Scientologists have a great idea. ‘Clearing’ is done to remove occlusions from your mind. It supposedly takes away all stress. It can apply in another part of your life, in another way. 

    This is not Scientology, it’s common sense. You can clear your life’s stress by removing all troubling matter out. This provides ‘peaceful’ experiences that can be much more desired. Having no stress…

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Your own Freedom

As soon as you determine your own freedom, somebody else steps in. What did I ever do to them? Nothing! I’m an American! I want my rights! I demand my freedoms! Nothing has stood in my private way, nothing should. No trades accepted.

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Twitter is suing the US government over a demand to reveal the user behind an anti-Trump account - Business Insider

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